We were very impressed with this article by Yana Yakovleva published in today’s Moscow Times, which echoes many of the points made regarding the presumption of innocence in Robert Amsterdam’s recent Wall Street Journal contribution.&nb...
Recently President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the firing of Viktor Grechman, a police Major-General of the Tomsk Oblast. Serving as the motive for this, as is not difficult to guess, was the murder of local journalist Konstantin Popov, who passed awa...
Russia’s Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has apparently suggested returning to a tax on oil from East Siberian fields just two months after the government suspended the duty. At a media briefing executives from TNK-BP have suggested tha...
Bad loans can apparently be expected to rise to as much as 11% of Russia’s banking portfolio in the first 6 months of 2010. Jason Bush laments how quietly the scandal of Sberbank’s losses through fraud (totaling $180 million) has...
TODAY: Russia’s ambassador to Ukraine lands in Kiev; was Putin an unexpected guest at the State Council meeting? Psychological tests for cops. START talks to resume; Lavrov on Nagorny Karabakh progress; Russia to throw curve ball at UN...
Today Carl Schreck of the National has a great interview with Alexei Navalny, a minority shareholder in Rosneft who regularly risks his life and safety to confront the corruption and opaque practices of the company (and its chairman and arch-silov...
Garry Kasparov has an interesting article in the New York Review of Books this week. It is particularly unique, because it makes no mention of Russia, politics, or Putin, but instead pontificates on another matter – chess and artificia...
The Washington Post is running an editorial about Sec. of State Hillary Clinton’s speech on internet freedom, which is seen as at risk of invention from authoritarian governments in China and Russia. While everyone is focused on the Go...
Human Rights Watch has published a press release praising the decision by Russia to ratify a reform to the European Court of Human Rights, Protocol 14. Others say not to take it at face value. From HRW: “This is a long-awaited and posi...
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